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Notion that the rules of the game are as important as the personalities running has suddenly become relevant. and now here we are talking about voter district iing. >> when you look at the districting right now it looks like a political pretzel, and people dont know where their congressional district is like you were saying, but then you look at it, and you are like, where am i supposed to find my ballot place, and where am i supposed to stand in line on election day, and one day, im a member an...

Republic candidate which is one of the reasons why you hear all this talk about marco rubio. >> bill: lets get back to president obama. if this, indeed, is his mind set that his coalition is the end quote the asen deansy, is he going to govern in a different way. that is going to be very confrontational. im going to do what you want and i dont care what you think. >> he did that for two years, remember and we had the 2010 midterm was the worst defeat of incumbent party in the congress that we ha...

There is overlapping. democrats want to it from the policy but placate part of our base and the republicans need do this for self preservation. they cannot have a conversation with the single most rapidly growing part of the american electorate unless they address this. the business community believes strongly that resolving this issue is important to growing the economy. this is some reason to believe a consensus can be formed. it may be narrow. the main issue is, what is the administration and...

Campaigning for senators. >> being secretary of state is a perfect excuse. id love to but i cant. >> you guys arent helping me here. we look at the map. i want to put up big numbers, 12 of the 21 seats from rothenberg report and you nathan that you have as fairly favored or safe democrat democratic seats. 14 of the 14 seats. open seats like georgia, we have seen the democratic party is getting closer every time with georgia. >> the seats been open force about 15 minutes. we have to see who runs ...

Campaign, but, you know, maybe hes right. i mean, the fever cant go on forever. it has to break at some point. you know, either it breaks or their entire party breaks. you cant continue being a party that ignores, you know, national election results as demint said that the party wants to do. you know, you cant go in and say, if we win, then we have a mandate, but if we lose then the other side doesnt have a mandate. you can only be divorced from reality for so many years. so, you know, whether i...

Turn, he does not unite. he does divide. were going backwards in the sense of were identifying by our color and our gender and our income and our region. and its just -- i would argue that the democrats have moved away from the mainstream way more than the republicans have. and i keep coming back to the state argument. they will -- we are coming up on a midterm. we have a number of democrats that have won in states. the majority of them that mitt romney won by double digitses. with the possible ...

Sitting in clint eastwoods chair. >> but, joan, when you look at the fact that they keep going from one to another crazy theory, i mean, rush limbaugh came up with a new theory on president obama today. take a listen. >> 2016, waiting to happen. that is -- that is if obama decides to abdegait. obama may not give up the crown, just like queen elizabeth. >> obama may not give up the crown, like all of the sudden hes not going to leave aufgs. and to think that these are the people setting the tone....

Entitlement spending was going to be central to those changes. he hasnt done anything about it. he never offered a plan. he mocked republicans when they offered a plan. when david axelrod asked last summer about the presidents priorities for second term, he listed six issues. didnt once mention debt and deficits. we saw yesterday the president had a sum total of four sentences on debt and deficits as he launches into his second term. it just seems like the president doesnt care about cutting spe...

Walking down pennsylvania avenue with that very kind of easy wave that he has today. >> oh, look, he is much more confident and relaxed today, that is true. by the way, four years ago, the republicans were planning how to obstruct him the night of the inaugural. even setting that aside, yes, they can stake all of this out for the next couple of years, but they know he cant do half of what he wants right now. the interesting thing for me is how he thinks ahead for what he hopes is going to be the...

Negotiate, under different terms than he had before. >> richard, you wrote the book about it. where do you see him going? that guy that we just saw walking down pennsylvania avenue with that very kind of easy wave that he has today. >> oh, look, he is much more confident and relaxed today, that is true. by the way, four years ago, the republicans were planning how to obstruct him the night of the inaugural. even setting that aside, yes, they can stake all of this out for the next couple of years...